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- Maxwell’s Mountain by Shari Becker (buy)
- Jasmine Skies by Sita Brahmachari (buy)
- Mommy, Why is Your Skin So Brown? by Marianna Dragomirova (buy)-Hapa Filipina/ white
- All the Colors of the Earth by Sheila Hamanaka
- little blue and little yellow by Leo Lionni
- Mira in the Preset Tense / Artichoke Hearts by Sita Brahmachari (YA Fiction)
- Grandfather Counts by Andrea Cheng
- I Am a Ballerina by Valerie Coulman (buy)
- My Basmati Bat Mitzvah by Paula J. Freedman (YA Fiction)
- How My Parents Learned to Eat by Ina R. Friedman
- Mixed: Portraits of Multiracial Kids by Kip Fulbeck
- What A Family by Rachel Isadora
- Gadget Girl by Suzanne Kamata (YA)
- I am Me by Karla Kushkin (buy)
- My Mom is a Foreigner but Not to Me by Julianne Moore
- Mommy, Why’s Your Skin So Brown by Maria Leonard Olsen (buy)
- The Favorite Daughter by Allen Say (buy)
- The Wakame Gatherers by Holly Thompson (buy)
- Perfect Lil Blends: A Reality Book That Celebrates the Diversity of Multicultural Children by Luke Whitehead (buy on MixedNation.com) (buy on Amazon.com)
- Buzz by Janet S. Wong
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Other Valuable Lists of Children’s Diversity Books
Multiracial Asian Families’ book list